1920 UK Foreign Min Lord Curzon wrote that Iraq High Comm
Wilson’s ideas were backwards
and him leading Mandate was a
problem Wilson rejected self-rule
1922 Nephew of cleric Khalisi arrested for posting
anti-election fatwa in Khadimiya Baghdad When
police tried to arrest man
followers came to his aid but still detained
1922 Mujtahid Khalisi called for shop closings in Khadimiya
to protest nephew’s arrest Few complied
1981 UN rep Palme took 4th trip to Tehran to try
to negotiate ceasefire to end Iran-Iraq War
1982 Ayatollah Khomeini announced Iran would go to Lebanon
and Jerusalem through Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1997 UN Resolution 1115 said Iraq had to fully cooperate
with weapons inspectors and allow them
into disputed sites
(Musings
On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003
Invasion)
2002 CIA paper on Iraq-Al Qaeda relationship Said two had
contacts since mid-90s but no evidence
of cooperation on terrorism
Differences limited relationship
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Sadrist march in Baghdad against US occupation
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2004 9/11 Comm member claimed captured Iraqi docs showed 3
Saddam Fedayeen members were in
Al Qaeda Claimed a Fedayeen was Al
Qaeda facilitator in Malaysia Just had same name
2005 PM Jaafari announced $1 bil deal with Iran to build
schools hospitals and libraries
(Musings
On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2005 US forces saw insurgents fighting other insurgents
along Iraq-Syrian border
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2005 Sen Hagel told Bush he should listen to outside voices
on Iraq policy
2006 Saddam’s lawyer kidnapped by men in police uniform and
executed
2006 Zalmay Khalilzad sworn in as new US ambassador to Iraq
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Joint Chiefs plan to
transfer security to Iraqis in 18 months
accept Anbar Wanted to draw down US
brigades in Iraq from 15 to 10 by end of yr
(Musings
On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Joint Chiefs he wanted only
5-6 US brigades in Iraq by Dec 07
(Musings
On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2007 Report VP Mahdi tendered resignation Complained PM
Maliki not including president and vice
presidents in decision making
United Iraqi Alliance also complained Maliki only consulted with Dawa advisers
2008 Gen Petraeus issued new guidelines for US forces in
Iraq to set up governance services build economy
2009 Mayors in some Ninewa districts threatened to join KRG as
part of al-Hadbaa list dispute
(Musings
On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
2010 ISF broke up protests in Nasiriya over lack of
electricity Protests in Basra too
2010 Electricity Minister Hassan resigned due to protests
2012 PM Maliki called for Ninewa Gov Nujafi to be dismissed
saying he violated constitution by
holding
talks with Kurds over oil deals in disputed areas
2013 Transportation Minister and Badr head Amiri said Iraq’s
Shiites would fight ISIS in Syria if
shrines were attacked
(Musings
On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2014 Rawa Ana Rutba Albu Hayat Jubba in western Anbar all
fell to ISIS
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
2014 ISF executed 25 prisoners in Rawa before withdrawing
2014 Fighting between Naqshibandi Ansar al-Sunna Islamic
Army vs ISIS over control of Hamrin, Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 ISIS fought Naqshibandi over control of Riyad, Kirkuk
2014 ISIS executed 84 ISF in Tikrit
2014 New security op to clear Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil
2014 ISIS attacked Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin and turned back
2014 Sadrists paraded in Baghdad Amarah Basra and other
locations in south Iraq to show that it was
defending
the country
(Musings
On Iraq Moqtada al-Sadr And Iraq’s Militia Mobilization)
2015 KRG stopped delivering oil for export by Baghdad
2017 IS blew up historic Nouri Mosque and Hadbaa minaret in
west Mosul as Iraqi forces approached
(Musings
on Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 249)
2018 21 Supreme
Court ruled that manual recount and replacing Election Comm with judges was
constitutional Cancelling displaced and foreign voting was not
(Musings
On Iraq Iraqi Court Rules For Ballot Recount While talks Continue To Form
New Govt)
2019 Protests in
Basra Wasit Maysan Karbala Muthanna Dhi Qar Qadisiya over corruption and
electricity Sadrists held protest in Baghdad Were protest beforehand but this
was first day happened across multiple provinces
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